What it does
If this move is successful and the user has not fainted, the user switches out even if it is trapped and is replaced immediately by a selected party member. The user does not switch out if there are no unfainted party members, or if the target switched out using an Eject Button or through the effect of the Emergency Exit or Wimp Out Abilities.
At 60 base power it is the
29th strongest of the 39 damaging physical
moves that appear in this format.
Who carrys it
12 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Flip Turn.
The one that matters most is Basculegion,
which is on 31.5% of teams and carrys it on 31.8% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
What it hits
As a Water move it is super effective against Fire, Ground and Rock, resisted by Dragon, Grass and Water.
9 other Water moves appear in this format: Wave Crash, Aqua Jet, Life Dew, Scald, Hydro Pump, Muddy Water and others.
Who could and does not
20 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Flip Turn at all,
against the 12 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is
the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it.
The most-played of those are Milotic, Primarina, Empoleon, Clawitzer and Greninja — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Flip Turn accounts for an expected
0.12 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
42nd most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs.
81% of that comes from Basculegion alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s.
Its carriers are mostly Water (11), Ghost (2) and Dragon (2).
Where these numbers come from
Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is
the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than
written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the
team builder or the damage calculator.
Basculegion
31.5%
31.8%
Mega Swampert
8.4%
17.7%
Samurott-Hisui
0.57%
38.9%
Mega Starmie
0.47%
8.3%
Palafin
0.45%
46.8%
Mega Dragalge
0.34%
39.4%
Blastoise
0.28%
9.7%
Vaporeon
0.24%
40.8%
Mega Feraligatr
0.23%
2.3%
Basculegion-F
0.18%
9.2%
Quaquaval
0.10%
8.3%
Simipour
0.06%
78.4%